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shineth not, for the like time : to see whether will 

 corrupt sooner : and try it also with capon, or some 

 other fowl, laid abroad, to see whether it will 

 mortify and become tender sooner ; try it also with 

 dead flies, or dead worms, having a little water cast 

 upon them, to see whether will putrify sooner. 

 Try it also with an apple or orange, having holes 

 made in their tops, to see whether will rot or 

 mould sooner. Try it also with Holland cheese, 

 having wine put into it, whether will breed mites 

 sooner or greater. 



892. For the increase of moisture, the opinion 

 received is ; that seeds will grow soonest ; and hair, 

 and nails, and hedges, and herbs cut, &c. will grow 

 soonest, if they be set or cut in the increase of the 

 moon. Also that brains in rabbits, woodcocks, 

 calves, &c. are fullest in the full of the moon : and 

 so of marrow in the bones ; and so of oisters and 

 cockles, which of all the rest are the easiest tried if 

 you have them in pits. 



893. Take some seeds, or roots, as onions, &c. 

 and set some of them immediately after the change ; 

 and others of the same kind immediately after the 

 full : let them be as like as can be ; the earth 

 also the same as near as may be ; and therefore 

 best in pots* Let the pots also stand where no rain 

 or sun may come to them, lest the difference of the 

 weather confound the experiment : and then see in 

 what time the seeds set in the increase of the moon 

 come to a certain height ; and how they differ from 

 those that are set in the decrease of the moon. 



